Sofia Coppola
Fred Roos, Casting Director Turned Oscar-Winning Producer on ‘The Godfather Part II,’ Dies at 89
Fred Roos, the casting director turned producer who jump-started the career of Jack Nicholson and collaborated often with Francis Ford Coppola, sharing a best picture Oscar with the filmmaker for 'The Godfather: Part II,' has died.
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Eleanor Coppola, Emmy-Winning Director of ‘Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,’ Dies at 87
Eleanor Coppola, the matriarch of a Hollywood dynasty who won an Emmy for directing the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse and helmed her first narrative feature at age 80, died Friday. She was 87. Coppola died at her home in Rutherford, California, her family said in a statement to the Associated Press. Survivors include […]
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Sofia Coppola Says She Has to Fight for a “Tiny Fraction” of the Massive Budget Male Directors Get
Sofia Coppola is getting candid about making films on low budgets because, as a female director, she doesn’t tend to get the massive budgets her male counterparts do. In a conversation with BBC News, the Priscilla director opened up about how she had to get creative with the Priscilla Presley biopic, based on the biography […]
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Academy Museum Gala Honoring Oprah, Meryl Streep Raises Over $10M at Third Annual Event
The Academy Museum Gala returned for its third year on Sunday night, honoring Meryl Streep, Michael B. Jordan, Oprah Winfrey and Sofia Coppola among an A-list group of guests. The Los Angeles event — which was originally scheduled for Oct. 14 but was delayed until December following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel — serves […]
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Nicolas Cage on Filming a Movie in Toronto at the Same Time as Cousin Sofia Coppola: “This Has Got to be Good Luck”
Nicolas Cage and Sofia Coppola surprisingly found themselves making movies in Toronto at the same time. The Oscar-winning actor told Entertainment Tonight, in an interview published online Friday, that while he was shooting the Kristoffer Borgli-directed comedy Dream Scenario, which hits theaters nationwide on Nov. 22, his filmmaker cousin Coppola was filming Priscilla, which is currently playing […]
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Box Office: ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Leads Slow Frame With $19.4M, ‘Priscilla’ Opens Nationwide
Universal and Blumhouse’s horror hit Five Nights at Freddy’s led a frightfully slow frame at the domestic box office amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. Originally, Denis Villeneuve’s high-profile tentpole Dune: Part Two was set to open this weekend, but the movie fled to 2024 because of the actors strike prohibition on stars doing any promotion. […]
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Sofia Coppola Says She Wanted Lana Del Rey on the ‘Priscilla’ Soundtrack: “Didn’t Work Out With the Timing”
Sofia Coppola has revealed that Lana Del Rey was nearly featured on the Priscilla soundtrack. In a recent interview with E! News, the filmmaker said, “We were hoping she could do a song for it, but it didn’t work out with the timing.” Coppola went on to share that she first learned about fans’ correlation […]
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‘Priscilla’ Star Cailee Spaeny Talks Kirsten Dunst’s Endorsement and Priscilla Presley’s Seal of Approval
Cailee Spaeny’s star-making turn as Priscilla Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla comes as no surprise to anyone who’s followed her young career so far. The Springfield, Missouri native has consistently stolen scenes since her feature film debut in 2018’s Pacific Rim Uprising, and she’s only followed suit through a wide variety of roles in Bad […]
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Box Office: ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Terrifies With Monstrous $78M Opening
Five Nights at Freddy’s is off to a historic start at the domestic box office, helping drive overall revenue. The latest horror offering from Universal and Blumhouse opened to a record-smashing $78 million, despite debuting simultaneously on sister streaming service Peacock. It started off with a monstrous Friday haul of $39.5 million, including $10.3 million […]
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Sofia Coppola Says Her Apple TV+ Series Was Axed Because of Her Lead Being “an Unlikable Woman”
Before Sofia Coppola decided to tell Priscilla Presley’s story in A24 biopic Priscilla, she was readying another major project that didn’t end up panning out. The director had set an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1913 novel, The Custom of the Country, at Apple TV+. It was going to be a five-hour limited series, but the […]
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Sofia Coppola Nearly Quit Filmmaking After ‘Marie Antoinette’: “I Was Just Worn Out”
Sofia Coppola has revealed why she almost quit making films following her 2006 movie Marie Antoinette. While speaking with Rolling Stone, in an interview published online Tuesday, the Priscilla director said that while she “had a great time with Kirsten [Dunst] and Jason [Schwartzman], being in Versailles and in Paris at that time,” it was […]
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‘Priscilla’ Stars Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi Talk “Disabling the Mythology” of the Presleys
Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi did their homework when it came to portraying one of the most iconic couples in recent history, Priscilla and Elvis Presley, in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla. The stars of the A24 biopic hit the carpet for the New York Film Festival’s centerpiece film on Friday, where they discussed their process for […]
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